Add in support for collecting the configuration of network devices, stored securely.
Similar to rancid, but better.
i.e. store the output of "Show running" on ciscos, netscalers, etc.
Report changes.
Allow comparison of config at different points in time, or between devices.
Allow overlay on graphs showing "config change" as an event (point in time).
It should be possible to name devices identically when in different host groups. (Device name should not be the Primary Key). For example, "Firewall" is a legitimate common name for the two devices in two satellite offices. In this way, the host group effectively forms part of the name (satelliteOffice1-firewall, satelliteOffice2-firewall).
Report on who got paged, emailed; who ack'd, who missed; who passed to next.
provide live data/instant query capability
The use of the Spanner icon and right click is inconsistent for context-sensitive actions. Suggest standardization on one or the other.
Allow SDT to be set on datasource groups, as specified by 'Group Method' and 'Group Parameters'. On our F5 load balancer I have a regex Group Method on the 'F5Pools-' and 'FSVIP-' data sources that group together all pools and VIPs belonging to a specific project. As the project is new the apps are going up and down a lot; I have to hunt through and apply a SDT to each individual pool member and VIP member. I'd like ...more »
Allow SDT to be set on datasource groups, as specified by 'Group Method' and 'Group Parameters'.
On our F5 load balancer I have a regex Group Method on the 'F5Pools-' and 'FSVIP-' data sources that group together all pools and VIPs belonging to a specific project. As the project is new the apps are going up and down a lot; I have to hunt through and apply a SDT to each individual pool member and VIP member. I'd like to be able to set a SDT for all members of each VIP and Pool group.
This would be very helpful for us. Thanks.
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Install "Super Agent"s in well-connected data centres in key cities around the world. Give the customer the option of using a SuperAgent to monitor the availabiliy of their external services.
This would be useful for customers who wish to monitor their external websites, services SOAP interfaces etc.
Suggest providing this service at no additional cost for customers with more than a certain number of hosts.
Would it be possible to view VMware ESX servers as a cluster, would be good to see overall cluster performance stastics.
When SDT is set for a device, host, datasource or anything the alarm shows on the Alerts tab but there is no indication on that alert that there is SDT set.
If you added the (SDT) marking to the alert similar to how it shows on the Hosts tab that would make things very easy to ID and not cause any undue stress for a person who isn't aware there is SDT scheduled for that particular alert.
Add an "IFrame" dashboard widget that performs an (optionally parameterised) HTTP Get to include other data within the Dashboard. The parameters would be those already known to the dashboard, i.e.: - Dashboard Name (e.g. %DashboardName%) - Start Time (e.g. %StartTime%) - End Time (e.g. %EndTime%) It would also be possible to specify the widget height and refresh frequency. For example, it would be possible to view ...more »
Add an "IFrame" dashboard widget that performs an (optionally parameterised) HTTP Get to include other data within the Dashboard.
The parameters would be those already known to the dashboard, i.e.:
- Dashboard Name (e.g. %DashboardName%)
- Start Time (e.g. %StartTime%)
- End Time (e.g. %EndTime%)
It would also be possible to specify the widget height and refresh frequency.
For example, it would be possible to view a dashboard containing:
1. A list of known engineering works by adding an IFrame Widget with the following URL parameter:
http://engineeringworkssystem.company.com/index.jsp?start=%StartTime%&end=%EndTime%
2. The latest CNN news (mobile version) by adding an IFrame Widget with the following URL parameter:
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'Application groups' will allow the the user to define all the elements of a specific application. These may be hosts, groups, or instances. e.g. an application may include 4 of the 40 VIP instances on an F5; a host group of 4 web servers; and one of the db instances on each of 2 hosts; and 2 volumes on a netapp. Once defined, an 'Application Group' should show as a host group on the host display tree - although it ...more »
'Application groups' will allow the the user to define all the elements of a
specific application.
These may be hosts, groups, or instances.
e.g. an application may include 4 of the 40 VIP instances on an
F5; a host group of 4 web servers; and one of the db instances on each of 2
hosts; and 2 volumes on a netapp.
Once defined, an 'Application Group' should show as a host group on the host
display tree - although it may have hostgroups within it. This allows the user to see all the components of an application at once.
The Application Group should also be a component that can be selected for
scheduling downtime (bug 1285).
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e.g.:
Every month, a monthly Dashboard view is PDFed and sent to management. As requested by a customer's IT Director.
Windows Events Log could use improvement in usability. I will describe how the product we use today does it which works great. That same product is very poor at all the other stuff you do well so i would prefer for you guys to get windows event logging up to their level. Create Event Set Templates -These are a grouping of event filters. Such as SQL Server Event Set, Exchange Event Set, HP Hardware Monitoring Event Set, ...more »
Windows Events Log could use improvement in usability. I will describe how the product we use today does it which works great. That same product is very poor at all the other stuff you do well so i would prefer for you guys to get windows event logging up to their level.
Create Event Set Templates
-These are a grouping of event filters. Such as SQL Server Event Set, Exchange Event Set, HP Hardware Monitoring Event Set, Dell hardware Monitoring Event Set, Active Directory Event Set, DNS Event Set, DHCP Event Set, etc. Typically each role a server can have means a new event set template. The event filters are typically specify the source with * next to category and event id. Then there are ignores for specific events that are useless within that source. Any given event set template will have 5-20 specific ignores to weed out the false possitive. Then we we get a new server online we match up the roles with the event set templates. We also have a global ignore event set that applies to every server type. If we get false possitives or alerts for a given server we have a couple of options
1.) Assign it to the global ignore event set template if no server should ever have this triggered.
2.) Create a customer specific deviation from the event set template that triggered. So if it was an exchange event set i would copy the exchange event set and call it server X exchange event set and add a new ignore.
This type of system allows you to start with a quick and dirty template based on role and then fine tune for the specific server.
The other challenge we have with the current system and maybe you can help out is event log types. If you don't assign the appropriate event set to the appropriate event log(application, Security, System) then you don't get the alert.
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We use a product called PHD Virtual to pull the vmdk's to another set of disks when the customer doesn't have Netapp with SnapMirror. This product sucks at reporting on backup success/failure. It provides very robust emails but to put that into a system of making sure it succeeds everyday is painful. If you guys could use those API's to determine if jobs where successful or not it would be of huge value. We would be happy ...more »
We use a product called PHD Virtual to pull the vmdk's to another set of disks when the customer doesn't have Netapp with SnapMirror. This product sucks at reporting on backup success/failure. It provides very robust emails but to put that into a system of making sure it succeeds everyday is painful. If you guys could use those API's to determine if jobs where successful or not it would be of huge value. We would be happy to provide you with a demo system for development.
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Widget that allows Maps. We would love to entirely convert all our solarwinds clients to logic monitor. However one the most useful features for lower tier help desk is graphical maps. Solarwinds even now has a way to add custom GPS coridinates per device and it will create a google map view with Green, yellow, red icons for each device. Also i would love to be able to export by visio to a jpg. This would contain my storage ...more »
Widget that allows Maps. We would love to entirely convert all our solarwinds clients to logic monitor. However one the most useful features for lower tier help desk is graphical maps. Solarwinds even now has a way to add custom GPS coridinates per device and it will create a google map view with Green, yellow, red icons for each device. Also i would love to be able to export by visio to a jpg. This would contain my storage area network devices, my hypervisor layer, my vm layer, my citrix access layer, and my perimeter/firewall layer. I could then tie all of the devices to this jpg allowing my help desk to quickly indentify where issues are occuring and if they are localized to a section or all of my cloud enviornment.
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Add refresh capability via a refresh button to the agent event screen. This way when monitoring the live events on an agent you can keep the window open and just refresh the data to pick up new events.
Allow customers to opt in to allow their agents to monitor other customers sites via http, https and ICMP.
This would allow the delivery of Keynote type services (web site reachability/peformance), with hundreds of agents around the world.
Model ISP billing.
Allow customers to enter ISP rates, commits and burst charges.
They can then be alerted if they are exceeding commit on 95 percentile level.
Will allow LogicMonitor to check accuracy of ISP billing.
Can ultimately aggregate data, and report standard costs for thieir level of commit in their area, alerting them if they are paying more than average.
to switch to absolute scale (temporarily) for all graphs, for easy comparison
i mean for example if you make dashboard with ping latencies or disk latencies with milliseconds
then every graph has own scale, and difficult to notice at first, which one is most overloaded
i wonder if there could be checkbox somewhere to „Force y-axes scale“ checkbox?
Rules should be able to trigger multiple escalation chains (like a multi-sleect)
As a technology service provider, it'd be great to be able to display historical data -- e.g. a LM graph -- on my public website. What would be ideal is if I could pick a particular LM graph -- say, 7-day http response time -- and get a URL that I could integrate into my public site.
Netscan is great if you have a well design network where all your static IP's are in one range or on dedicated subnets. We can't use netscan for smaller clients since it doesn't allow us to distinguish between a device we want monitored(Server, Firewall, Router, Printer) and a devices we don't(IP Phones, Workstations). I don't know if you can use OS finger printing software like nmap to determine if a device is "worth" ...more »
Netscan is great if you have a well design network where all your static IP's are in one range or on dedicated subnets. We can't use netscan for smaller clients since it doesn't allow us to distinguish between a device we want monitored(Server, Firewall, Router, Printer) and a devices we don't(IP Phones, Workstations). I don't know if you can use OS finger printing software like nmap to determine if a device is "worth" monitoring or not
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We have some windows user mode applications we need to monitor that require a specific user is logged in for the application to function. I would like the ability to add a monitor set that lets us know if that user is logged out.
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